Useful Thoughts and Actions Taken

CI Brasil – CT1 Porto Alegre Inscription Open

Calendário CT1

  • 17/04/14         Início da Fase 1 – Abertura das inscrições
  • 22/06/14         Fim da Fase 1 – Fechamento das inscrições. 
  • 26/06/14         Início da Fase 2 – Prova online
  • 04/07/14         Fim da Fase 2 – Divulgação dos selecionados
  • 04/07/14         Início da Fase 3 – Início do envio de documentos
  • 18/07/14         Fim da Fase 3 – Último dia para envio da documentação POR SEDEX (data de postagem).
  • 12/07/14         Divulgação de vagas remanescentes
  • 04/08/13         Matrícula presencial
  • 05/08/14         Cerimônia de Abertura e Orientation Day (manhã)………..Início do Programa de Formação (tarde).
  • 31/07/15         Fim do Programa de Formação
By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Book Review: Professor Van Nostrand: CMOS Analog Design Using All Region MOSFET Modeling

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The class taught by the author is centered around the ability to scale MOSFET's across technologies using normalization.   This is typified by the second question on the test given in the course.   

Test Page 2

Partial solution of question 2 – This solution derives part A & B W/L.  Part C is just plug and chug.

Laboratory where parameters are extracted using SPICE

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Jim Dude: Writer of the software Asterisk and The various projects thereof

Jim Dude and the Asterisk software – he is in a wheel chair

Just got off of the phone with Jim Dude.  He is quite a character and I will be talking to him more.   Sold a microcontroller board to him as I was moving out of Saint Louis.

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Asterisk was a functional concept, but had no real way of becoming a practical useful thing, since it didnt, at that time, have a concept of being able to talk directly (or very well indirectly for that matter, being that there wasnt much, if any, in the way of practical VOIP hardware available) to any Telecom hardware (phones, lines, etc). Its marriage with the Zapata Telephony system concept and hardware/driver/ library design and interface allowed it to grow to be a real switch, that could talk to real telephones, lines, etc.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago